With retirement on the backburner, late\u002Dblooming Regina filmmaker Lynette Piper is eager to turn her latest accolades into something more.
“I am relatively new to the game,” she says. “I went back to school after I was downsized from a corporate communications job and spent a week in bed feeling sorry for myself. Then I thought, ‘What do I really want to be when I grow up in my 50s?’ This is something I’ve always been interested in but thought it was not within my reach.”
It began when her first student project was recognized at the WRPN Women’s International Festival in Delaware.George Grassick and Dawn Bird star in short film Out Standing in His Field. Supplied photo courtesy Lynette Piper.. The film is about an elderly man with dementia who escapes a nursing home and is found roaming a wheat field near his old homestead.
“It hits home,” says Piper, who believes her grandparents were looking down amid the filmmaking process. “I really feel very passionate that seniors’ stories need to be told. Dementia is really prevalent. These are people who have lived rich and extraordinary lives and they may not remember us but we remember them. They deserve our love and respect and our care.”
Despite its shoe-string budget, the film was selected last year for festivals around the world, claiming awards at indie events in Tokyo , Toronto and Vancouver .Piper is the lone Saskatchewan-based finalist in Face Off, which comprises nine shorts from across the country. It’s believed to be the first time in several years that a Sask. filmmaker’s entry made it into the competition, which tends to be dominated by bigger-budget projects from large markets like Toronto and Vancouver.
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